
They Go Up So Fast
Mission State
This mission currently has a dated launch window in the tracker.
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Name Origin
Play on "they grow up so fast" — wistful and nostalgic. This mission delivered Rocket Lab's 100th satellite to orbit, making the milestone sentiment the primary driver of the name.
Mission Overview
The Electron rocket will carry seven satellites to low Earth orbit: one Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky, two Internet-Of-Things (IoT) nanosatellites for companies Fleet Space and Myriota, a technology demonstration satellite for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space, a weather satellite pathfinder technology demonstration from Care Weather technologies, a technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command as well as Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and built Photon Pathstone spacecraft which will operate on orbit as a risk reduction demonstration to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year.